ASA and Minority Fellowship Program scholar Brittany Pearl Battle is a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She earned her bachelor’s from University of Delaware and her master’s in African American Studies from Temple University.

University Of Delaware's Race, Justice and Policy Alliance Presents: Making Connections with Local Communities with Keynote Speaker James Foreman Jr.

Oct. 18th, 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Delaware Historical Society 505 North Market St. Wilmington, DE

University of Delaware's Race, Justice and Policy Alliance Presents: Making Connections with Local Communities with Keynote Speaker James Forman Jr. Yale Law Professor and Author of, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Dr. Charles Faupel is a 1981 Graduate of the UD Sociology Program. He has taught Criminology for 27 years in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Auburn University and is now Professor Emeritus at Auburn. Charles was Director of Graduate Studies for the Sociology program for several year. He has authored several books pertaining to the Sociology of Drug Use, Social Problems and Social Behavior.

​David C. Lane joined the university in 2013 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University
of Delaware in Sociology. He has previously taught at Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richard Bland College of the College of William and Mary, and the University of Delaware.
His research has been published in numerous journals and books. Currently, he serves
as the Chair of the Social Problems Theory Division of the Society for the Study of
Social Problems.

Dr. Bracy is a researcher and
consultant for a California-based, applied social research firm that prioritizes
community-driven research and elevating the voices of marginalized and
underserved communities. "We help government, philanthropy and non-profit
organizations to do their best possible work for the communities they serve,
working across sectors to promote lasting change." She works closely with criminal
justice agencies throughout the state of California, local community-based
organizations who provide reentry services for individuals returning home from
prison, as well as foundations who fund justice reform advocacy and policy
development. She frequently works across disciplines, doing research in areas such as behavioral health, early
childhood, education and housing/homelessness. It is fast-paced, challenging,
and extremely rewarding work! In addition to her position at Harder+Company, she
also teaches in the undergraduate Criminal Justice program and the Masters of Public
Administration program in the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State
University.

​Dr. Kleinstuber
graduated summa cum laude from Rowan University in December 2004 with a Bachelor
of Arts degree in
Law & Justice Studies, a minor in Mathematics, and an Honors
concentration prior to enrolling in the University of Delaware, where he
received his Master of Arts in Sociology in 2007 and his Doctor of Philosophy in
Sociology in 2011. He is a member of
Alpha Kappa Delta, the sociology honor society, and currently serves as
UPJ's faculty advisor to AKD. His areas of specialization are
criminological theory and law & society. His research focuses on law &
society, the death penalty, and genocide and other human rights abuses.
Dr. Kleinstuber's dissertation examined the role of America's culture of
individualism on the mitigation process in Delaware capital cases through
content analyses of trial transcripts, judicial sentencing opinions, and local
media accounts and through interviews with 35 former capital jurors. Part
of his dissertation forms the crux of his book, Hegemonic Individualism
and Subversive Stories in Capital Mitigation, which was released on
Ashgate Publishing's
Law, Justice, and Power
series in May 2014. His research on capital jurors was also cited by the
Delaware Supreme Court when it
declared Delaware's existing capital sentencing statute unconstitutional inRauf v. Delaware. He is currently examining the role of victim impact
evidence (VIE) in capital penalty trials. Dr. Kleinstuber's teaching interests include
Criminology; Sociology of Law; Inequality, Crime, and Justice; Corrections; and Contemporary Issues in Criminal
Justice. A complete list of his course offerings can be viewed at the link
at the top of the page.

Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, La Salle University

Dr. Bogle
is the author of Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus
(New York University Press), which examines the nature and culture of
“hooking up” between college students as well as what happens after
students leave the college environment.

She
published an article entitled, “The shift from dating to hooking up in
college: What scholars have missed” in a new journal, Sociology Compass.

Bogle
is also interested in the study of crime, particularly violence against
women. She co-authored a paper on this subject, “Exploring the
Connection between Pornography and Sexual Violence,” which appeared in
Violence & Victims.

Vice President and Dean, College of Graduate and Continuing Studies, Professor of Criminal Justice, Norwich University

​William Clements, Ph.D. currently serves as Vice President and Dean of the College of Graduate Studies, and Professor of Criminal Justice at Norwich University. Dr. Clements has been involved in bringing Norwich's curriculum to the online environment and in developing new continuing and distributed education programs serving students in several fields, particularly for the military. He currently leads sixteen degree programs and over 1,800 students in the university's online programs. Dr. Clements' professional research interests and experience include criminal justice system studies, program evaluation, data systems development, and adjudication analysis. He served on the National Academy of Sciences - Justice Statistics Review Panel (2006-2009) and has published criminal justice research in Vermont as former executive director of the Vermont Center for Justice Research. He has professionally served as President of the Northeast Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, President of the Justice Research and Statistics Association and Co-Editor of the journal Justice Research and Policy. Dr. Clements helped form (2014) and serves as founding President of the Crime Research Group, Incorporated, a Vermont non-profit justice research organization. In addition, Dr. Clements serves as an accreditation team member and site visit chair for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and on the New England Board of Higher Education, State Authorization and Reciprocity Agreement Regional Steering Committee (2015-2018 term). Additionally, he serves on the founding Board of Trustees for The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) in Lebanon.

​​Jennifer
D. Griffin is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and
Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She received her
Ph.D. in sociology with concentrations in Gender and Deviance at the
University of Delaware in 2013. Her research interests include policing,
family/work conflict & balance, gender, deviance, criminal justice
ethics, and family issues. She is also a full-time Delaware
State Trooper at the rank of Captain.

At Penn State Harrisburg, I work in a criminal justice program and
teach both residential and online courses (3-3 load), do research/publish, and
do service activities for the program, school, and college.

I currently work with
students in the University of Delaware Honors Program. My responsibilities
include academic advising, Honors Program recruitment, and advisement for the
post-graduate Fulbright grant for study, research or English teaching abroad.

I am also currently co-chair
of UD’s Women’s Caucus advocating for women on campus.